Strange Fruit

A great use of wikispace is to create an exegesis--a dissection of a single, dense text. To create an exegesis, link multiple words or phrases to external references, providing useful resources from which the reader can use to better understand the content. I have provided an *example below.

Strange Fruit

Southern trees bear strange fruit,

Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,

*Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,

Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant south,

The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,

Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,

Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is the fruit for the crows to pluck,

For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,

For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,

Here is a strange and bitter crop.

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